A scientific, data-driven approach should be used in the island’s fight against the current wave of crime and violence.This advice has come from Senator and university lecturer Dr Kristina Hinds, who has also suggested that the evidence has consistently shown that longer sentences are not normally a deterrent to crime.Speaking on the floor of the Senate Chamber on Wednesday, on the Firearms (Amendment) Bill 2022, Dr Hinds welcomed many of the legislative changes being introduced with the new bill which provides for tougher sentences to those found guilty of firearm offences.
It has become almost cliché to say that Barbados has very few resources apart from its human capital and the island’s natural beauty. Those two have been combined as critical inputs in sustaining our main economic driver – tourism.Buttressing our human resources has been our educational system, which is largely supported by a public policy in which tax payers shoulder the cost whether the recipients are from wealthy families, or they are from dirt poor origins.The majority of Barbadians have come from working-class backgrounds where poverty was a fact of life, a pit toilet was a shared experience, and hand-me-downs were common among siblings.A lot of that has changed for the current generation. Though most young Barbadians in the “gen zers” population - born between 1997 and 2012 - are likely to be showering by solar water heaters, have probably never seen, far less used a pit toilet, and have been binging on smartphone technology and tablets since they were toddlers, an estim
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PRESS RELEASE The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Open Campus at its upcoming Virtual Graduation Ceremony will conferHonorary Degrees of Doctor of Laws (LLD) on two distinguished Caribbean citizens - Dr CleopatraDoumbia-Henry (LLB, LLM, PhD) for her contribution to International Law and The Honourable SirHugh Rawlins for his…